Psychoanalytic Approach (Sigmund Freud);

1. Psycho-analytic Theory
K.THIYAGU, Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod

2. SAM
SAMANTHA TYPE
Choleric
Mesomorphic
TYPE APPROACH

3. SAM
SAMANTHA
Traits
Aggressive
Hot Tempered
Undisciplined
TRAIT APPROACH

4. SAM
SAMANTHA
Psycho-
analytic
Unconscious
id
PSYCHO- ANALYTIC APPROACH

5. Sigmund Freud
(1856-1939)
Freud had many followers: Jung and Adler.
Father of modern psychology
Born 6 May 1856
Died 23 September 1939 (aged 83)
Hampstead, London
Nationality Austria
Fields Neurology, Psychology, Psychotherapy,
Psychoanalysis
Institutions University of Vienna
Alma mater University of Vienna (MD, 1881)

6. Freud believes that our personality
is build around the three unified
and inter relating systems, namely
Id
Ego
Super Ego
Fun

7. Aalavanthan

8. ID
• Exists entirely in the unconscious mind
• Our hidden true animalistic wants and
desires.
• Works on the Pleasure seeking
Principle
• It has no values, knows no laws,
follows not rules, does not recognize
right or wrong
• Avoid Pain and receive Instant
Happiness.
• Only considers the satisfaction of its
needs

9. ID
I Demand
I Desire
I Destroy
IDIOT
The deposed despot, and
a cannibol of Uganda
has named himself
IDI Amin!
Pleasure Principle

10. EGO
• Develops after the Id
• Ego functions - as a policeman to check the unlawful
activities of the id
• It follows the principle of reality (Works on the Reality
Principle)
• Act with intelligence to control, selected and decide what is
good and bad
• Negotiates between the Id and the environment.
• In our conscious and unconscious minds.

11. EGO
Reality Principle

12. SUPER EGO
• Develops last at about the age of 6
• It is our conscience (what we think the difference
is between right and wrong)
• It representation of social and moral values
• It is the ethical or moral arm of the personality.
• It is idealistic and does not care for realties.
• Perfection rather than pleasure is its goal
• It is decision making entity
Surf

14.  Individuals who have a strong or powerful
ego – have a strong or balanced personality.
 Individual possesses a weak ego – have a
maladjusted personality.
 If superego more powerful than ego –
neurotic personality
 If id is more powerful than ego – delinquent
personality

15. Freud’s
Psychosexual
Stages of Development

16. • He held that sex is a life energy.
• The sexual needs of the individual are
basic needs which have to be satisfied for
a balanced growth of the personality

17. FIVE PSYCHOSEXUAL
STAGES
Oral Stage (birth to 18 months)
Anal Stage (18 months to 3 years)
Phallic Stage (3 to 6 years)
Latency Stage (6 years to puberty)
Genital Stage (puberty to adulthood)

18. Freud’s Psychosocial States
of Personality Development
Stage (age range) Erogenous Zone Activity Focus
Oral
(birth to 1½ years)
Mouth, lips, and
tongue
Sucking, biting, and chewing
Anal
(1½ to 3 years)
Anus Bowel retention and elimination
Phallic
(3 to 6 years)
Genitals Identifying with same-sex parent to learn
gender role and sense of morality
Latency
(6 years to puberty)
No erogenous zone Cognitive and social development
Genital
(puberty to adulthood)
Genitals Development of sexual relationships, moving
toward intimate adult relationships

19. Oral
Stage

20. Oral stage
• Mouth represents the first sex organs
for providing pleasure to the child
• Sucking, chewing
• Always keeps mouth – candy, stick,
own thumb

21. Anal
Stage

22. Anal stage
• Toilet training
• Body waste material through the anus
or the urethra

23. Phallic
Stage

24. Phallic Stage
Conflicts
• In the Oedipus conflict, the little
boy becomes attracted to his
mother and fears the father
• In the Electra conflict, the little
girl is attracted to her father

25. Latency
Stage

26. Latency stage
• Boys and girls prefer to be in the
company of their own sex and even
neglect or hate members of the
opposite sex.
• Cognitive and social development

27. Genital
Stage

28. Genital stage
• Boy and girl now feels a strange feeling
of strong sensation in the genitals an
attraction towards the members of the
opposite sex

29. Contribution to education
• It has given a good method for the
study of behaviour
• It has provided a good therapy
• Understand the maladaptive behaviour
• The provision of proper extra curricular
activities and suitable hobbies.

30. Neo-Freudian
Theories of Personality
• Agree with many of
Freud’s basic ideas,
but differ in one or
more important ways
Carl Jung’s Collective
Unconscious
Alfred Adler’s Striving
for Superiority
Karen Horney
and the
Need for
Security

31. Thank you
Jai Bharat!
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